Language and words are what you make of it.
The meaning of PCMR has not been problematic ever since it became popular. Everyone knows it's tounge-in-cheek.
You'd have to really try to misinterpret it to find anything problematic about it and at that point, you're trolling.
@Atemu It’s literally a phrase popularized by Nazis. There’s nothing tongue in cheek about it. When a large group of people assign their own awful meaning to a phrase, it takes on an entirely new meaning for them. It becomes a dog whistle for them. It opens the door to start spreading their bullshit.
A recent example: the far right’s malicious coopting of ‘woke.’
Another recent example: we have actual, real life Nazis walking the streets and the hallways of the US government. That didn’t happen in a vacuum.
It was a hundred years ago, now it's not. That's how language works. The Nazis don't get to decide what a term means forever in any context. I do not believe they have that power and I won't give it to the either.
We Germans still use the word "Führer". "Reiseführer", "Geschäftsführer", "Marktführer", "Führerschein" etc. Common words. Nobody thinks of Hitler when they hear those words. Again, you have to really try to misunderstand these. That actually does happen for cracking a stupid joke every now and then. Again, you'd have to be trolling.
By letting the Nazis change back the meaning of a word, you're letting them win. You acknowledge their line of thinking is valid and that this term shall henceforth refer to their stupid ideology again.
The rise of Nazis in that one fucked up country bear no relevance to the meaning of a term in global online tech communities.
I used to be heavily into the ‘pc master race’ craze back in the early 2010s. Especially with how heavily exclusivity was pushed during that era.
Then I missed game collecting on NES, Gamecube, original Xbox, etc. and with the recent better support for cross-play on newer games it’s been earlier to play with friends.
Now my goal is just get back into loving all of gaming, independent of platform.
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